Archive for January 2011

The Numbers Game

A Piece of Pointless Trivia. [decimal point IS mentioned!] A search through fbb's eclectic and chaotic collection of public transport ep...

Part I - a history lesson. Mr Thrales was something of an entrepreneur; as well as being the landlord of the Crown and Cushion at Stanningto...

good try, but ... Wrexham and Shropshire? An unsubsidised railway company operating between London Marylebone, Shropshire (Shrewsbury) and...

With Acknowledgement to Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. (The character was Wolfgang, played by Arte Johnson) 2011 will mark the 25th anni...

It gets dafter wherever you look ... Doing a bit of work for a customer, (yes, people actually pay fbb for his consummate skills and experti...

Where's the sense, common or commercial? [from a contrubitor: adapted] What do these figures have in common? £23.45 £24.70 £24.75 £33.85...

An update - and more bad news! Our regular readers will recall the sadness of the withdrawal of through buses from Northampton to south of S...

Transport Nostalgia par Excellence! Ruth Murphy was the first baby to be born in Hampstead Garden Suburb, and she lived there for most of he...

Commuter Fares ARE a Bargain! (see 15th Jan blog) Co-incidentally "Rail" magazine has recently published comparative figures for l...

Its cheaper by bus! [in Harrogate] Commuters, a strange word, has its origins in "good ole U S of A" where folk who travelled regu...

Glasgow Nostalgia In the bloom of her youth Mrs fbb used to travel, in her parents' shiny motor car, from Bearsden [remember it was a ...